11:29 PM,
Jan. 30, 2013

Central's Emmy Rawson competes at last year's Jay Sectional. The Bearcats and Patriots are favored this year.

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Anne Vormohr wasn't sure how she'd respond to Matt Slavik's coaching. The freshman swimmer at Jay County knew her high school coach had an efficient style, and she was curious to see how it would affect her performance.

"He's all about doing the yards that count, not as much as getting in and swimming as many yards as you can," Vormohr said. "It's getting in there and doing the amount of yards and doing them hard."

The quality-over-quantity approach hasn't stopped Vormohr and fellow freshman Sophie Bader from rewriting much of the Patriots' record book. They've combined to break six individual ...